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It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
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Businessperson
Professor
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
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Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.
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I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of them, and also the source of our conscience. I believe that to the degree people live by this inspired conscience, they will grow to fulfill their natures to the degree that they do not, they will not rise above the animal plane.
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Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.
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Private victories precede public victories.
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Treat them all the same by treating them differently.
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I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important people in our lives can become fertile ground for the growth of enduring trust - trust that is actually stronger because it's been tested and proved through challenge.
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Results matter! They matter to your credibility.
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The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.
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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
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My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
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